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R.E. Derouin

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Raymond Derouin was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1937. He was an executive in the insurance industry before retiring after thirty years. He began writing stage plays, ultimately winning four national contests. In 1999 he introduced David Dean, a retired police detective. There are six mysteries in this series.

Crime Time, a stand-alone mystery, and Enough to Miss Christmas, a family love story were both released in 2013. Fridays, a fictional journal of a reclusive school teacher, was released in 2014.

Mr. Derouin and his wife of fifty years live in Mesa, Arizona where he is working on a new novel.

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Skip Case

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Mountain Ice

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San Juan Solution

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Dead on the Fourth of July

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Bail Out: A David Dean Mystery

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